What’s Dell PowerVault and what products does it include? What’s special about Dell PowerVault DL2100: Powered by Symantec Backup Exec and its alternative?
Webinář: Provozujte datacentrum v kanceláři (Dell VRTX) / 5.9.2013Jaroslav Prodelal
Here are the steps to set up the shared storage:
1. Install the physical disks into the chassis. The VRTX supports up to 12 x 3.5" or 25 x 2.5" disks.
2. Configure the PERC card (RAID controller) to present the disks as a single storage pool or multiple logical disks.
3. Map the PERC's virtual adapters to the server node slots in the chassis. Each server will see the storage.
4. Format and partition the logical disks as needed. The storage can now be accessed by any server node in the chassis for use like local disks. Virtual machines can be live migrated between servers without moving storage.
The key aspects
When considering whether to upgrade to the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX or repurpose older hardware, the advantages of new hardware are clear. Not only do you get newer hardware that is faster and is better-equipped to handle the increasing demands of today’s business applications and workloads, but you also benefit from advances that make deployment and management easier than ever.
In our labs, we compared the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with four server nodes and shared storage and networking to a similar infrastructure using four legacy tower servers, external network switches, and an external SAN. Our testing revealed the following:
· PowerEdge VRTX took 78.5 percent less time and 150 fewer steps to configure and deploy out of the box compared to the legacy solution.
· PowerEdge VRTX It took less than 1 hour to unbox and configure into a highly available VMware vSphere cluster compared to over 4 hours on the legacy solution.
· Deploying the Dell PowerEdge VRTX used just a single management tool, the integrated Chassis Management Controller, whereas the tower solution required six separate management tools.
Choosing such a complete solution during your next server refresh can simplify infrastructure setup and configuration, boost performance through built-in high availability features, and potentially save your organization space and operating costs over the life of the hardware.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
Configuring a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on ...Principled Technologies
Setting up a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series nodes, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and setup your Exchange Server infrastructure. By setting up a highly available Exchange Server 2013 environment on your compact PowerEdge VRTX, you can ensure your Exchange workloads stay running to keep your business moving.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Using Virtual Tape Libraries with Backup Exec 2014Symantec
Symantec Backup Exec 2014 delivers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery to protect your entire infrastructure whether built upon virtual, physical, or a combination of both. Using modern technology, Backup Exec backs up local and remote data to virtually any storage device including tape, disk and cloud. Recovery is fast and efficient. With a few simple clicks, you can quickly search and restore granular file or application objects, applications, VMs, and servers directly from backup storage. Additionally, easily protect more data while reducing storage costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology.
• Faster data backup and restore processes than tape
• VTL implementation streamlines transition for tape-based infrastructures
• Broad VTL device platform support
• Backup Exec’s DirectCopy to tape option enables data to be copied from a VTL directly to a physical tape during a duplicate backup
• Power and reliability
This document provides information about accessing VMware technical documentation and submitting feedback. It lists the most up-to-date documentation location on the VMware website, which also provides product updates. It includes instructions for submitting documentation feedback to VMware. The document also contains copyright information and a glossary of VMware terms.
This white paper provides guidance on deploying Microsoft operating systems to Dell PowerEdge servers. It discusses several deployment methods including the Unified Server Configurator (USC), Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU), Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK), Microsoft WDS/RIS, and Microsoft Automated Deployment Service (ADS). It also covers manual installation and potential drive lettering issues with newer PowerEdge servers.
Webinář: Provozujte datacentrum v kanceláři (Dell VRTX) / 5.9.2013Jaroslav Prodelal
Here are the steps to set up the shared storage:
1. Install the physical disks into the chassis. The VRTX supports up to 12 x 3.5" or 25 x 2.5" disks.
2. Configure the PERC card (RAID controller) to present the disks as a single storage pool or multiple logical disks.
3. Map the PERC's virtual adapters to the server node slots in the chassis. Each server will see the storage.
4. Format and partition the logical disks as needed. The storage can now be accessed by any server node in the chassis for use like local disks. Virtual machines can be live migrated between servers without moving storage.
The key aspects
When considering whether to upgrade to the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX or repurpose older hardware, the advantages of new hardware are clear. Not only do you get newer hardware that is faster and is better-equipped to handle the increasing demands of today’s business applications and workloads, but you also benefit from advances that make deployment and management easier than ever.
In our labs, we compared the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with four server nodes and shared storage and networking to a similar infrastructure using four legacy tower servers, external network switches, and an external SAN. Our testing revealed the following:
· PowerEdge VRTX took 78.5 percent less time and 150 fewer steps to configure and deploy out of the box compared to the legacy solution.
· PowerEdge VRTX It took less than 1 hour to unbox and configure into a highly available VMware vSphere cluster compared to over 4 hours on the legacy solution.
· Deploying the Dell PowerEdge VRTX used just a single management tool, the integrated Chassis Management Controller, whereas the tower solution required six separate management tools.
Choosing such a complete solution during your next server refresh can simplify infrastructure setup and configuration, boost performance through built-in high availability features, and potentially save your organization space and operating costs over the life of the hardware.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
Configuring a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on ...Principled Technologies
Setting up a highly available Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series nodes, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and setup your Exchange Server infrastructure. By setting up a highly available Exchange Server 2013 environment on your compact PowerEdge VRTX, you can ensure your Exchange workloads stay running to keep your business moving.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Using Virtual Tape Libraries with Backup Exec 2014Symantec
Symantec Backup Exec 2014 delivers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery to protect your entire infrastructure whether built upon virtual, physical, or a combination of both. Using modern technology, Backup Exec backs up local and remote data to virtually any storage device including tape, disk and cloud. Recovery is fast and efficient. With a few simple clicks, you can quickly search and restore granular file or application objects, applications, VMs, and servers directly from backup storage. Additionally, easily protect more data while reducing storage costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology.
• Faster data backup and restore processes than tape
• VTL implementation streamlines transition for tape-based infrastructures
• Broad VTL device platform support
• Backup Exec’s DirectCopy to tape option enables data to be copied from a VTL directly to a physical tape during a duplicate backup
• Power and reliability
This document provides information about accessing VMware technical documentation and submitting feedback. It lists the most up-to-date documentation location on the VMware website, which also provides product updates. It includes instructions for submitting documentation feedback to VMware. The document also contains copyright information and a glossary of VMware terms.
This white paper provides guidance on deploying Microsoft operating systems to Dell PowerEdge servers. It discusses several deployment methods including the Unified Server Configurator (USC), Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU), Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK), Microsoft WDS/RIS, and Microsoft Automated Deployment Service (ADS). It also covers manual installation and potential drive lettering issues with newer PowerEdge servers.
File server performance on the Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd ...Principled Technologies
Many growing businesses employ a combination of HDDs and SSDs in their datacenters to provide storage for users. Software-defined storage additions, such as Windows Storage Spaces, can help improve workload performance by using tiering and caching technologies with enabling hardware. When combined with this software, the new Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd can provide storage support for the increasing workload performance of your business. We found that the PowerEdge R730xd provided support for 16.5 times more file server IOPS, and up to 94.7 lower latency, than the PowerEdge R720xd. If your business needs storage and performance to support its growth, consider the new Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual DesktopsDataCore Software
This paper reports on a configuration for Virtual Desktops (VDs) which reduces the total hardware cost to approximately $32.41 per desktop, including the storage infrastructure. This number is achieved using a configuration with dual node, cross-mirrored, High Availability storage. In comparison to previously published reports, which tout the storage infrastructure costs alone of VDI at from fifty to several hundred dollars per virtual machine, the significance of the data becomes self evident. In this report, storage hardware costs become inconsequential.
Hewlett Packard and Dell are the market leading server manufacturers. But which should you choose when buying a server? We put the two head to head to help you decide.
As this guide has shown, if your business could benefit from using a hyperconverged computer/storage solution rather than disparate dedicated appliances, a Nutanix storage cluster powered by Dell XC630 appliances could be the right way to go. Able to handle nine SQL Server 2014 OLTP workloads at over 340,000 OPM, 200 mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2013, as well as file/print and web server disk workloads, the powerful Dell appliances with the help of Intel processors can keep up with your current business, with room to grow in the future. With software-defined tiered storage, high availability, and a redundant network architecture, the small form factor of the Dell XC630 appliances can help keep your business moving.
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.9 times the performance of our legacy IBM solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 73 percent lower cost per order compared to the legacy IBM System x3850 X5 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
Oracle 11gr2 on_rhel6_0 - Document from Red Hat IncFilipe Miranda
This document provides recommendations for deploying Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. It describes installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, configuring the operating system, and installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and the Oracle database. It also provides four reference storage configurations that use traditional hard disk drives and solid-state drives to store database files.
This document provides a reference architecture for implementing a Virtual SAN Ready Node environment using Dell hardware and VMware software. It describes the physical and logical architecture, including networking, storage, and server node components. Specific hardware models are recommended, such as Dell R730 servers and Dell networking switches. The architecture supports VMware Horizon, including hybrid deployments with Horizon Air.
Avamar is backup software from EMC that uses global, source-based data deduplication to reduce the size of backup data. It delivers fast daily full backups using existing infrastructure by reducing network bandwidth usage for backup by up to 500 times and reducing total backup storage needs by up to 50 times compared to traditional backup methods. Avamar supports various operating systems, applications, and virtual environments. It provides flexible deployment options including an integrated hardware/software appliance and a virtual edition for VMware.
The document compares the performance of a Dell PowerEdge R720 server configured with SAS hard drives versus Samsung Green SM825 solid-state drives (SSDs) for supporting virtual desktop users. It finds that the server configured with SSDs supported 95% more virtual desktop users (160 users) than the SAS configuration (82 users), demonstrating that upgrading to SSDs can nearly double the number of supported users. Testing showed the SSD configuration experienced very low disk latency and high disk commands per second, allowing it to better handle intensive user workloads compared to the SAS drives.
Symantec offers NetBackup appliances to simplify deployment and maintenance of their NetBackup backup software. The appliances provide a turnkey solution for backup and disaster recovery that eliminates the effort of installing and configuring separate hardware and software components. Integrated appliances like NetBackup provide a better solution than standalone products by fully integrating the backup software to orchestrate backup and recovery in a simplified way. NetBackup appliances are pre-installed with the leading NetBackup software and provide scalable, efficient data protection for physical, virtual, and remote environments through intelligent deduplication.
This document provides details about Avamar backup configurations and procedures for production and campus environments. It includes information on cluster details, utilization and capacities, backup policies, groups, schedules, and retention policies. It also describes how to perform on-demand backups and restores in Avamar, and covers the Avamar Enterprise Manager and replication.
This document provides information about storage devices, with a focus on hard disk drives (HDDs). It defines what an HDD is and describes the main types - IDE/EIDE and Serial ATA. It covers HDD manufacturers, how to identify different HDD types, and how to optimize HDD performance, including through defragmentation, checking for errors, and cleaning temporary files. Advanced optimization tactics discussed include converting drive formats, adjusting NTFS settings, and disabling time stamp updating.
Symantec Netbackup Delivering Performance Value Through Multiple De-duplicati...Symantec
De-duplication (dedupe) has rapidly become a standard requirement for organizations of all sizes and across all industries to reduce backup storage costs. However, many organizations have fallen into the habit, or rut, of upgrading to bigger dedupe storage appliances every time they outgrow or refresh their current dedupe pool. Organizations took the approach of “bigger was better” for de-duplication pools. Today, organizations need to re-examine their approach to deduplication pools. With advances in technology, increasing data growth, and
dynamic business demands, many IT organizations are now implementing a “more is better” approach to de-duplication pools. This solution brief examines the pros and cons of implementing multiple deduplication pools to address today’s IT challenges.
The Symantec NetBackup Platform is a complete backup and recovery solution that is optimized for virtually any workload, including physical, virtual, arrays, or big data infrastructures. NetBackup delivers flexible target storage options, such as tape, 3rd-party disk, cloud, or appliance storage devices, including the NetBackup Deduplication Appliances and Integrated Backup Appliances.
NetBackup 7.6 delivers the performance, automation, and manageability necessary to protect virtualized deployments at scale – where thousands of Virtual Machines and petabytes of data are the norm today, and where software-defined data centers and IT-as-a-service become the norm tomorrow. Enterprises trust Symantec.
New Features in PSP2 for SANsymphony™-V10 Software-defined Storage Platform and DataCore™ Virtual SAN. New enhancements include OpenStack support, deduplication and compression, veeam backup integration and random write accelerator.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶NetBackup Appliance AutoSupport for NetBackup 5330Symantec
Symantec AutoSupport is a set of infrastructure, process, and systems that enhance the support experience through proactive monitoring of Symantec Appliance hardware and software, as well as providing automated error reporting and support case creation.
Through automation, internet access, and case management integration, Symantec can vastly improve the support process and give our support engineers the tools to solve problems faster. The AutoSupport infrastructure within Symantec analyzes the Call Home data from each appliance to provide proactive customer support and incident response for hardware failures thus reducing the need for an administrator to initiate support cases. It also enables Symantec to better understand how customers configure and use appliances, and where improvements would be most beneficial.
AutoSupport can also correlate the Call Home data with other site configuration data held by Symantec, for technical support and error analysis. With AutoSupport, Symantec greatly improves the customer support experience.
The document provides instructions and guidelines for installing and managing Citrix XenServer Dell Edition. It includes sections on installing and configuring XenServer, using XenCenter management software, configuring storage options like local disks and Dell storage arrays, backup and recovery procedures, best practices, and troubleshooting. The document aims to help users optimize the virtualization platform on Dell servers and storage.
Comparing Dell Compellent network-attached storage to an industry-leading NAS...Principled Technologies
A flexible NAS solution addresses many organizational challenges from server backup to hosting production applications and databases. Advanced NAS solutions such as the Intel Xeon processor-based Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS provide flexibility and scalability, allowing various use options as well as drive options throughout its lifecycle. This scale and flexibility enables an organization to alleviate performance bottlenecks anywhere in the organization simply by reallocating or adding more disk resources.
We found that the Intel Xeon processor-based Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS solution backed up a small-file corpus up to 15.9 percent faster and a large-file corpus up to 17.1 percent faster than a similarly configured, industry-leading NAS solution. This means that selecting the Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS has the potential to help optimize an organization’s infrastructure.
This document provides a summary of the agents, devices, operating systems, and databases supported by Dell OpenManage Essentials version 2.1. It lists supported Dell servers, storage, networking devices, UPS systems, printers, and client systems. The summary also includes supported versions for agents like iDRAC, CMC, and Lifecycle Controller that can be managed by OpenManage Essentials.
KACE As A Platform: Connecting to EverythingDell World
The K1000 is a platform that can bring many technologies together. Learn how to integrate your appliance with other Dell products: http://dell.to/1GDYpr8
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
File server performance on the Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd ...Principled Technologies
Many growing businesses employ a combination of HDDs and SSDs in their datacenters to provide storage for users. Software-defined storage additions, such as Windows Storage Spaces, can help improve workload performance by using tiering and caching technologies with enabling hardware. When combined with this software, the new Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd can provide storage support for the increasing workload performance of your business. We found that the PowerEdge R730xd provided support for 16.5 times more file server IOPS, and up to 94.7 lower latency, than the PowerEdge R720xd. If your business needs storage and performance to support its growth, consider the new Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual DesktopsDataCore Software
This paper reports on a configuration for Virtual Desktops (VDs) which reduces the total hardware cost to approximately $32.41 per desktop, including the storage infrastructure. This number is achieved using a configuration with dual node, cross-mirrored, High Availability storage. In comparison to previously published reports, which tout the storage infrastructure costs alone of VDI at from fifty to several hundred dollars per virtual machine, the significance of the data becomes self evident. In this report, storage hardware costs become inconsequential.
Hewlett Packard and Dell are the market leading server manufacturers. But which should you choose when buying a server? We put the two head to head to help you decide.
As this guide has shown, if your business could benefit from using a hyperconverged computer/storage solution rather than disparate dedicated appliances, a Nutanix storage cluster powered by Dell XC630 appliances could be the right way to go. Able to handle nine SQL Server 2014 OLTP workloads at over 340,000 OPM, 200 mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2013, as well as file/print and web server disk workloads, the powerful Dell appliances with the help of Intel processors can keep up with your current business, with room to grow in the future. With software-defined tiered storage, high availability, and a redundant network architecture, the small form factor of the Dell XC630 appliances can help keep your business moving.
Converged architecture advantages: Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 servers vs. ...Principled Technologies
Based on our testing with heavy SQL Server 2014 database workloads, the converged architecture solution of a Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers delivered 3.9 times the performance of our legacy IBM solution. We also found the Dell PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution offered 73 percent lower cost per order compared to the legacy IBM System x3850 X5 solution. In addition, the PowerEdge FX2s and FC830 solution does not sacrifice traditional hardware redundancy while providing the same highly available database solution in a smaller rack space. If your business runs Microsoft SQL Server 2014, the converged architecture approach with Dell PowerEdge FX2s chassis and FC830 servers powered by Intel could bring a harmonious balance of performance, reliability, and cost efficiency to your data center.
Oracle 11gr2 on_rhel6_0 - Document from Red Hat IncFilipe Miranda
This document provides recommendations for deploying Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. It describes installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, configuring the operating system, and installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and the Oracle database. It also provides four reference storage configurations that use traditional hard disk drives and solid-state drives to store database files.
This document provides a reference architecture for implementing a Virtual SAN Ready Node environment using Dell hardware and VMware software. It describes the physical and logical architecture, including networking, storage, and server node components. Specific hardware models are recommended, such as Dell R730 servers and Dell networking switches. The architecture supports VMware Horizon, including hybrid deployments with Horizon Air.
Avamar is backup software from EMC that uses global, source-based data deduplication to reduce the size of backup data. It delivers fast daily full backups using existing infrastructure by reducing network bandwidth usage for backup by up to 500 times and reducing total backup storage needs by up to 50 times compared to traditional backup methods. Avamar supports various operating systems, applications, and virtual environments. It provides flexible deployment options including an integrated hardware/software appliance and a virtual edition for VMware.
The document compares the performance of a Dell PowerEdge R720 server configured with SAS hard drives versus Samsung Green SM825 solid-state drives (SSDs) for supporting virtual desktop users. It finds that the server configured with SSDs supported 95% more virtual desktop users (160 users) than the SAS configuration (82 users), demonstrating that upgrading to SSDs can nearly double the number of supported users. Testing showed the SSD configuration experienced very low disk latency and high disk commands per second, allowing it to better handle intensive user workloads compared to the SAS drives.
Symantec offers NetBackup appliances to simplify deployment and maintenance of their NetBackup backup software. The appliances provide a turnkey solution for backup and disaster recovery that eliminates the effort of installing and configuring separate hardware and software components. Integrated appliances like NetBackup provide a better solution than standalone products by fully integrating the backup software to orchestrate backup and recovery in a simplified way. NetBackup appliances are pre-installed with the leading NetBackup software and provide scalable, efficient data protection for physical, virtual, and remote environments through intelligent deduplication.
This document provides details about Avamar backup configurations and procedures for production and campus environments. It includes information on cluster details, utilization and capacities, backup policies, groups, schedules, and retention policies. It also describes how to perform on-demand backups and restores in Avamar, and covers the Avamar Enterprise Manager and replication.
This document provides information about storage devices, with a focus on hard disk drives (HDDs). It defines what an HDD is and describes the main types - IDE/EIDE and Serial ATA. It covers HDD manufacturers, how to identify different HDD types, and how to optimize HDD performance, including through defragmentation, checking for errors, and cleaning temporary files. Advanced optimization tactics discussed include converting drive formats, adjusting NTFS settings, and disabling time stamp updating.
Symantec Netbackup Delivering Performance Value Through Multiple De-duplicati...Symantec
De-duplication (dedupe) has rapidly become a standard requirement for organizations of all sizes and across all industries to reduce backup storage costs. However, many organizations have fallen into the habit, or rut, of upgrading to bigger dedupe storage appliances every time they outgrow or refresh their current dedupe pool. Organizations took the approach of “bigger was better” for de-duplication pools. Today, organizations need to re-examine their approach to deduplication pools. With advances in technology, increasing data growth, and
dynamic business demands, many IT organizations are now implementing a “more is better” approach to de-duplication pools. This solution brief examines the pros and cons of implementing multiple deduplication pools to address today’s IT challenges.
The Symantec NetBackup Platform is a complete backup and recovery solution that is optimized for virtually any workload, including physical, virtual, arrays, or big data infrastructures. NetBackup delivers flexible target storage options, such as tape, 3rd-party disk, cloud, or appliance storage devices, including the NetBackup Deduplication Appliances and Integrated Backup Appliances.
NetBackup 7.6 delivers the performance, automation, and manageability necessary to protect virtualized deployments at scale – where thousands of Virtual Machines and petabytes of data are the norm today, and where software-defined data centers and IT-as-a-service become the norm tomorrow. Enterprises trust Symantec.
New Features in PSP2 for SANsymphony™-V10 Software-defined Storage Platform and DataCore™ Virtual SAN. New enhancements include OpenStack support, deduplication and compression, veeam backup integration and random write accelerator.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶NetBackup Appliance AutoSupport for NetBackup 5330Symantec
Symantec AutoSupport is a set of infrastructure, process, and systems that enhance the support experience through proactive monitoring of Symantec Appliance hardware and software, as well as providing automated error reporting and support case creation.
Through automation, internet access, and case management integration, Symantec can vastly improve the support process and give our support engineers the tools to solve problems faster. The AutoSupport infrastructure within Symantec analyzes the Call Home data from each appliance to provide proactive customer support and incident response for hardware failures thus reducing the need for an administrator to initiate support cases. It also enables Symantec to better understand how customers configure and use appliances, and where improvements would be most beneficial.
AutoSupport can also correlate the Call Home data with other site configuration data held by Symantec, for technical support and error analysis. With AutoSupport, Symantec greatly improves the customer support experience.
The document provides instructions and guidelines for installing and managing Citrix XenServer Dell Edition. It includes sections on installing and configuring XenServer, using XenCenter management software, configuring storage options like local disks and Dell storage arrays, backup and recovery procedures, best practices, and troubleshooting. The document aims to help users optimize the virtualization platform on Dell servers and storage.
Comparing Dell Compellent network-attached storage to an industry-leading NAS...Principled Technologies
A flexible NAS solution addresses many organizational challenges from server backup to hosting production applications and databases. Advanced NAS solutions such as the Intel Xeon processor-based Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS provide flexibility and scalability, allowing various use options as well as drive options throughout its lifecycle. This scale and flexibility enables an organization to alleviate performance bottlenecks anywhere in the organization simply by reallocating or adding more disk resources.
We found that the Intel Xeon processor-based Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS solution backed up a small-file corpus up to 15.9 percent faster and a large-file corpus up to 17.1 percent faster than a similarly configured, industry-leading NAS solution. This means that selecting the Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS has the potential to help optimize an organization’s infrastructure.
This document provides a summary of the agents, devices, operating systems, and databases supported by Dell OpenManage Essentials version 2.1. It lists supported Dell servers, storage, networking devices, UPS systems, printers, and client systems. The summary also includes supported versions for agents like iDRAC, CMC, and Lifecycle Controller that can be managed by OpenManage Essentials.
KACE As A Platform: Connecting to EverythingDell World
The K1000 is a platform that can bring many technologies together. Learn how to integrate your appliance with other Dell products: http://dell.to/1GDYpr8
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a legacy server and traditional SAN VSAN by offering 72 percent greater VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $176.52 per user.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Reduce complexity and save money with Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EV...Principled Technologies
Companies like ManuCorp have seemingly contradictory goals for their virtualized infrastructure: They want a solution that eases the deployment and management burden for generalized IT staff while simultaneously saving money over the long term. According to our analysis, ManuCorp would do well to choose Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL, saving up to 63.9 percent in costs over three years compared to a solution with Cisco UCS blades and NetApp storage.
Less experienced administrators like ManuCorp already has in house would be able to plug in the Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL and use its single, easy-to-use interface to deploy end-to-end virtual infrastructure and complete updates without any additional training or instruction. The Cisco UCS and NetApp solution required extra tools and a wider skillset, which can mean adding a more experienced person and inviting the chance for human error. In addition, the hyper-converged Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL appliance reduced power consumption compared to the do-it-yourself environment with Cisco UCS blades and NetApp, which can contribute to big operating cost savings.
Meet database performance needs while reducing TCO with the Dell PowerEdge VR...Principled Technologies
Cloud WAN services can seem convenient for small businesses and remote offices, but they remove local control and can be more expensive over time. In our tests, the all-in-one Dell PowerEdge VRTX provided the necessary transactional database performance while saving up to 63.9 percent in costs over five years. When you’re looking for a reliable solution to run workloads in remote offices, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX has the potential to cost less than running databases from the cloud.
Back up deduplicated data in less time with the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appli...Principled Technologies
Backing up data is a key component in data protection. However, long backup windows can cause headaches for IT and users while slowing down the network. We found that using source-side deduplication and Rapid CIFS technology to back up data to the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance was faster—with the average rate of data backup at 8.99 TB per hour. The backup to the DR6000 completed in two-thirds the time that the backup to the industry-leading deduplication appliance completed. Backing up to the DR6000 consumed less than one-sixth the bandwidth needed to back up to the industry-leading deduplication appliance. In addition, the DR6000 needed less rack space and cost a third less than the competition. The solution to lengthy backup windows is clear: Save time and network bandwidth with source-side deduplication built into the Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance.
Administrators can spend a great deal of time deploying and managing computing resources, especially when dealing with ROBO environments. The Dell PowerEdge VRTX, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v2 product family and running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, gives administrators centralized management tools to help them provide time saving benefits and integrated toolsets.
In our hands-on testing, we found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX greatly simplified deployment through an easy, wizard-based setup of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters across server nodes with the Dell OpenManage Cluster Configurator. It also provided versatile hardware resource reassignment through a shared PCIe bus and efficient centralized management through CMC and scripting. Finally, we found that the Dell System Update Utility worked seamlessly with Microsoft Cluster-Aware Updating to update server nodes while keeping the failover cluster online and minimizing downtime. These advantages make the Dell PowerEdge VRTX an attractive choice for those who seek to reduce the management overhead of their ROBO environments.
If your business is considering using a hyperconverged
computer/storage solution rather than disparate dedicated appliances, a Nutanix storage cluster powered by Dell XC630 appliances could bring many benefits. Thanks to its powerful Dell servers with Intel processors, this space-efficient solution was able to handle nine SQL Server 2014 OLTP workloads at over 420,000 OPM, 160 mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2013, and file/print and web server disk workloads; that’s enough to meet your present demands and still have room for future growth. With software-defined tiered storage, high availability, and a redundant network architecture, the hyperconverged solution based on Dell XC630 appliances can help your business get the job done.
Reduce time to complete backups and restores with Transparent Snapshots with ...Principled Technologies
Compared to a competitor solution, Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM) took less time to perform incremental backups and restore data from a backup on VMware VMs
A Dell PowerEdge MX environment using OpenManage Enterprise and OpenManage En...Principled Technologies
Compared to a Cisco UCS-X environment using Intersight, the Dell environment streamlined making changes to VLANs and helped avoid interventions during scheduled firmware updates
Conclusion
We executed two management scenarios in a Dell PowerEdge MX environment with Dell OpenManage Enterprise and OpenManage Enterprise Modular and a Cisco UCS X-Series chassis environment with Cisco Intersight. We learned that the Dell solution’s single-part profile modification for performing VLAN updates was quicker and simpler than the Cisco solution’s two-part profile deployment, requiring 40 percent less time and two-thirds as many steps. We also compared the firmware updating process on the solutions. Being able to schedule these updates to occur automatically from the online Dell repository offered an advantage over having to manually execute the same tasks from the Cisco Intersight repositories. Namely, administrators do not need to take action during maintenance windows but can instead schedule them ahead of time. Saving time on routine tasks frees administrators to pursue innovation, and being able to avoid middle-of-the-night duties helps companies provide a better work experience for admins. Together, these advantages help make Dell PowerEdge MX servers a good candidate for companies considering upgrading the older Cisco UCS servers in their data centers.
Upgrade to Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 servers with VMware vSphere 7.0 and gain g...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a study that tested online transactional processing (OLTP) performance on two server solutions: a Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server with VMware vSphere 7.0, and a previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 server with vSphere 6.7. The study found that the R940 solution processed over 30% more operations per minute than the R930 solution. Upgrading to the R940 platform provides benefits like more processor cores, memory, and PCIe capacity. VMware vSphere 7.0 features like vLCM could help scale Dell EMC environments, and integrating with OpenManage for vCenter allows faster updating, upgrading, and compatibility checking.
Before you make the plunge, take into consideration every aspect of your VDI project: user experience, admin time, storage capacity, and ongoing costs related to datacenter space. Our experiences with Dell EMC PowerEdge FX2s enclosures outfitted with PowerEdge FC630 compute modules and Dell EMC XtremIO arrays show that this solution is a compelling one for VDI deployments. The Dell EMC XtremIO solution supported 6,000 virtual desktops with a good user experience, offered flexibility by supporting both full and linked clones, recomposed the desktops quickly and easily, and reduced data dramatically through inline deduplication and compression. And it did all this in less than a single rack of datacenter space, to keep server sprawl in check and costs down.
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corporationsellingdatastorage,informationsecurity,virtualization,analytics, cloudcomputing, and
otherproductsand servicesthatalloworganizationstostore,manage,protect,andanalyze data.
AfterDell acquiredEqualLogicforits iSCSI productsin2008 and CompellentTechnologiesin2011,
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